What we believe about the future changes how we live today: If you believe the stock market will crash, where will you keep your money? Under your mattress, not in the bank. If you believe that this life is all there is, you’ll work to enjoy it all you can. You’ll work and enjoy theContinue reading “A Good Reason to Stand Trial (Acts 23:12-24:21)”
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Courage to Bear Witness (Acts 22:22-23:11)
How do we bear witness to Jesus when our beliefs are unacceptable to the people around us? Here in Acts 22 & 23, Paul finds himself in a similar position to us. He lives in a world where you can worship anyone or anything you want, as long as you don’t insist that people onlyContinue reading “Courage to Bear Witness (Acts 22:22-23:11)”
“If You Will Go With Me…” (Judges 4:1-24)
The book of Judges has many stories of victory against the odds. In chapter 3, there’s Ehud, who bluffed his way into a king’s palace and stuck a sword into his massive belly. Or Shamgar who killed 600 Philistines with a stick. How could they risk it all? Are there are still people like thatContinue reading ““If You Will Go With Me…” (Judges 4:1-24)”
An Unshakeable Kingdom (Hebrews 12:18-29)
Has your life ever been shaken up? Have you experienced what the writer of Psalm 46 describes: the earth is removed, the mountains carried into the midst of the sea? Has what you relied on been taken away? When your world turns upside down, you find out what you really value. So we ask, whatContinue reading “An Unshakeable Kingdom (Hebrews 12:18-29)”
The Westminster Confession of Faith
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, It’s shocking to hear that for many years, you couldn’t buy a copy of the Westminster Confession of Faith, even from the Presbyterian Bookshop at 156 Collins Street. I remember Rev. John Mercer telling me that said some of his classmates took their ordination vow “I own the WestminsterContinue reading “The Westminster Confession of Faith”
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